Lead Guitar for Beginners (JamPlay)
Learn The Essentials of Lead Guitar
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Callum Bair
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About this course
Are you ready to start learning how to play lead guitar? Callum Bair's beginner JamPlay course, Lead Guitar For Beginners, will introduce you to the basics of playing lead guitar.
Callum begins this course on the ground floor by going over the parts of the guitar itself, how to tune, and how you can get set up to play and learn lead guitar parts. You’ll learn foundational single-note techniques on the guitar, how to play your first melody lines, and many other essential build blocks to lay the foundation of a lead guitar player.
Lessons include Getting to Know Your Guitar, String Names and Tuning, Putting Your Hands on the Guitar, Reading Tablature and Notation, Your First Lick, Your Right Hand, The Caterpillar, and The Musical Alphabet,
From there, Callum will take you through your first lick/melody and then gradually increase the difficulty as the course moves on. Along with learning licks, Callum will also provide you with many techniques to add to your musical toolbox, such as slides, bends, inflections, and vibrato — all the things that will take your lead guitar playing to the next level!
Lessons Include: A Jimi Hendrix-Beatles Style Lick, Two is Better Than One, The Minor Pentatonic Scale, The Caterpillar Reimagined, How Licks Are Made, James Brown Lick, Keep On Bending, The Nitty Gritty of Bending, Major Pentatonic Scale, Vibrato and Slides, BB King Lick, Folk Medley, The Major Scale, Alternate Picking, Minor Scale, Minor Scale Pop Song, and A Practice Plan
You’ll have all of TrueFire’s advanced learning tools at your fingertips to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
You can loop, slow down, or speed up any lesson section. Plus, all of the tab and notation is synced to the videos for the optimal learning experience. You’ll also get tab and standard notation files to print out, Guitar Pro files, and all of the backing tracks to practice with.
Grab your guitar, and let’s play lead guitar with Callum Bair!
Callum begins this course on the ground floor by going over the parts of the guitar itself, how to tune, and how you can get set up to play and learn lead guitar parts. You’ll learn foundational single-note techniques on the guitar, how to play your first melody lines, and many other essential build blocks to lay the foundation of a lead guitar player.
Lessons include Getting to Know Your Guitar, String Names and Tuning, Putting Your Hands on the Guitar, Reading Tablature and Notation, Your First Lick, Your Right Hand, The Caterpillar, and The Musical Alphabet,
From there, Callum will take you through your first lick/melody and then gradually increase the difficulty as the course moves on. Along with learning licks, Callum will also provide you with many techniques to add to your musical toolbox, such as slides, bends, inflections, and vibrato — all the things that will take your lead guitar playing to the next level!
Lessons Include: A Jimi Hendrix-Beatles Style Lick, Two is Better Than One, The Minor Pentatonic Scale, The Caterpillar Reimagined, How Licks Are Made, James Brown Lick, Keep On Bending, The Nitty Gritty of Bending, Major Pentatonic Scale, Vibrato and Slides, BB King Lick, Folk Medley, The Major Scale, Alternate Picking, Minor Scale, Minor Scale Pop Song, and A Practice Plan
You’ll have all of TrueFire’s advanced learning tools at your fingertips to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
You can loop, slow down, or speed up any lesson section. Plus, all of the tab and notation is synced to the videos for the optimal learning experience. You’ll also get tab and standard notation files to print out, Guitar Pro files, and all of the backing tracks to practice with.
Grab your guitar, and let’s play lead guitar with Callum Bair!
What you'll learn
- Apply slides as ghost notes for expressive phrasing
- Integrate multiple techniques (slides, vibrato, hammer-ons) into one phrase
- Learn how to vary existing licks by changing notes, rhythms, or string sets
- Understand the difference between improvisational and classical approaches to music
- Develop an improvisational mindset rather than memorization-focused approach
Release date: 11/17/2023 • 4h 17m runtime
Sample lessons
A Jimi Hendrix-Beatles Style Lick
Concept & Demo
Folk Medley
Concept & Demo
Minor Scale Pop Song
Concept & Demo
What's included
26 lessons • 20 charts • 8 Jam Tracks
Lead Guitar For Beginners
If you're starting out on this instrument, and you have the goal in mind that you really want to try to play melody lines, you want to learn what lead guitar looks like, and you really just want to learn the ins and outs of single-note technique on the guitar, this course is going to cover all of that information.
This course was designed to have a good balance between real, usable licks that we can directly implement in our playing, with some overarching ideas that go all the way from scales and melodic ideas and devices to use within soloing, as well as the actual techniques like picking, bending, and slides, and any other extended techniques that we would use to actually get a note to sing out on the guitar.
I had a lot of fun putting this course together, so I hope you'll join me throughout this course, and I look forward to seeing you in the first lesson.
This course was designed to have a good balance between real, usable licks that we can directly implement in our playing, with some overarching ideas that go all the way from scales and melodic ideas and devices to use within soloing, as well as the actual techniques like picking, bending, and slides, and any other extended techniques that we would use to actually get a note to sing out on the guitar.
I had a lot of fun putting this course together, so I hope you'll join me throughout this course, and I look forward to seeing you in the first lesson.
Getting to Know Your Guitar
For our first lesson, Callum helps us get familiar with our guitar by breaking down some of the basic pieces of our instrument.
String Names and Tuning
Now that we know our guitar a little bit more, let's take a look at our string names and how we keep our strings in tune!
Putting Your Hands on the Guitar
With the basics out of the way, let's finally get our hands on our guitar! Callum uses single notes in this lesson to let us get familiar with what our left and right hands need to do!
Reading Tablature and Notation
In this lesson, Callum will go over how to read tablature and notation which describes what's being played on the instrument.
Your First Lick
Now that we have some of the basics under our fingers let's dive into our first lick! We will work in some basic scale positions to see how to play different notes and how our left and right hand talk to each other.
Your Right Hand
In this lesson, Callum takes a moment to revisit our right hand and discuss some best practices we can consider while playing as well as some of the different picking techniques we can utilize.
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